Joseph Massino

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Joseph Charles Massino (born January 10, 1943 in New York ) is a former mobster and leader of the Bonanno family of La Cosa Nostra in New York City. He became known for being the first boss of a family to become a Pentito and cooperating with the American government's law enforcement agencies.

Early years

Joseph Massino was born in New York City in 1943. He was one of three sons of the Italian-Americans Anthony and Adeline Massino. He grew up in Maspeth, Queens . Massino became a criminal in his childhood and fled to Florida at the age of fourteen . In 1956 he met his future wife Josephine Vitale. In 1960 they married. The couple had three daughters. His brother-in-law, Salvatore Vitale, was also a close friend and confidante. While Massino was still very athletic in his youth , he later became very overweight and suffered from diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure.

Massino committed his first murder in the 1960s on an associate (i.e., non-full member) of the Bonanno family: Tommy Zummo. A nephew Philip Rastellis helped Massino, protégé to be his uncle.

Bonanno family

Ascent

In the late 1960s he was still an associate and not a full member of the Bonanno family. Together with his brother-in-law Salvatore Vitale and Duane Leisenheimer, he regularly robbed trucks and engaged in illegal gambling. During this time he became friends with John Gotti . His mentor Phillip Rastelli was to become Natale Evola's boss after the death in 1973 , but had to go to prison himself.

In 1975 Massino and Vitale participated in the assassination of Vito Borelli. Massino later claimed that the initiative was largely due to John Gotti, following an order from Paul Castellano . The contract killing of Borelli was important for Massino because it was here that he showed his loyalty and murdered in the name of the family - a first important step towards becoming a full member. Massino and Vitale later confessed to having murdered their partner Joseph Pastore in 1976 for unpaid debts

In March 1975, Massino was charged with stolen goods , but the charges were dropped for violating the Code of Criminal Procedure .

On June 14, 1977, Massino became a full member of the Bonanno family a. a. recorded with Anthony Spero , Joseph Chilli, Jr. Carmine Galante , acting boss of the Bonannos, presided over the ceremony. He now worked as a soldato in James Galante's crew and later in that of Philip "Phil Lucky" Giaccones . Massino was always loyal to Rastelli. Massino feared his assassination by Galante and brought his case before the Commission , the highest executive council of the Mafia, in the interests of Rastelli . This gave the go-ahead for the elimination of Galante and on July 12, 1979 Galante was murdered. Rastelli, who was now the undisputed boss, rewarded Massino's loyalty with promotion to the Capo regime .

In the early 1980s, Massino ran his crew from the J&S Cake-Social club - a club that was part of the front company J&J Catering . In 1988 the building was raided and activities there were shut down.

Three capos murder and assassination of Napolitanos

After Galante's assassination, Massino faced two challenges: On the one hand, he fought with Dominic Napolitano for power. On the other hand, the family was split into two factions: the faction of the "Americans", who were loyal to Boss Rastelli, and that of the "Zips" ( Sicilian immigrants of the original Cosa Nostra who only spoke Sicilian, what the Italian-Americans who barely understand Sicilian as Hissing was perceived), who were critical of the boss. Napolitano and Joseph Massino were loyal to Rastelli. In 1981, Massino had heard from informants that Capos Alphonse Indelicato , Dominic "Big Trin" Trincera and Philip "Phil Lucky" Giaccone had obtained automatic weapons. This aroused the suspicion that they wanted to eliminate the Rastelli supporters and seize power. Massino turned to the boss of the Colombo family Carmine "Junior" Persico and the boss of the Gambino family Paul Castellano for advice. They asked him to act immediately. Massino and Dominic Napolitano turned to the "Commission", the highest authority of the US Mafia, to obtain approval to murder the conspirators. This was absolutely necessary if one wanted to murder full members of the Mafia. The "Commission" approved the project.

Massino and Napolitano invited the three conspirators to a meeting to discuss the family's future. When this appeared on May 5, 1981 with Frank Lino, Sal Vitale, Vito Rizzuto and Napolitano jumped out of a cupboard with pistols and shotguns and opened fire. The assassination attempt was described in the press as the "Three Capos Murder".

At that time, however, the Bonanno family was shaken by another severe crisis: FBI agent Joseph Pistone had served in Napolitano's crew and convicted several members of the gang. Napolitano was blamed for this crisis and he had to pay with his life.

On the run and murder of Bonventre

The information provided by Pistone led to the arrest of numerous Bonanno mobsters. In March 1982 an FBI agent warned Massino that he, too, was threatened with charges and he went underground. In 1984 Rastelli was fired. He and Massino ordered the murder of the Bonanno soldier Cesare Bonventre . Although he was still on the run, Massino was already perceived as the real boss of the family at that time. According to Vitale, Massino had Bonventre murdered because he hadn't given him enough help to escape.

1986 conviction and 1987 debt relief

Through Gotti associate Angelo Ruggiero , Massino met with criminal defense attorney John Pollok in 1984 to negotiate a deal with the prosecutor. In 1984 he turned himself in to the authorities and was released on bail. In 1985, Massino was charged with labor racketeering , infiltration of the Teamsters Local 814 union , and conspiracy to murder Pastore.

The labor racketeering case began in April 1986. In addition to Massino, Rastelli and former underboss Nicholas Marangello were indicted. In 1987 Massino was sentenced to ten years in prison.

In April 1987 Massino and Vitale were charged with armed robbery and triple murder. However, the indictment failed.

During Massino's imprisonment in the Federal Correctional Institution (Talladega) Vitale served as a messenger, which made him a kind of "co-acting boss" with Consigliere Anthony Spero . On behalf of Massino, Vitale organized the murder of Gabriel Infanti.

Bonanno boss

Reorganization of the family

After Rastelli's death in 1991, Massino was unanimously appointed boss. In 1992 Massino was fired and made Vitale an underboss . Massino was 48 years old and wanted a long reign in which he did not want to make the same mistakes as other bosses. So he ordered his subordinates never to say his name out loud. They were supposed to touch her ear instead, which led to the nickname "the Ear".

Massino closed the social clubs of the Bonanno crime family, because he afraid of the interception CONDITIONING had the FBI. Family get-togethers occasionally took place abroad.

Massino, who had drawn conclusions from the Pistone case, demanded an eight year waiting period from associates before anyone was allowed into the family and that members should give preference to their sons in the criminal family in order to minimize the likelihood of treason.

He also reorganized the chain of command within the organization. His orders were no longer to be passed on directly to the Soldati by the capos, and Massino himself also avoided public appearances that were effective in the media, as John Gotti had practiced. Pistone and the writer Jerry Capeci posthumously called Massino the last great gangster of the old school .

Meanwhile, Vitale made himself unpopular within the family because he is said to have become too greedy and inadmissibly overdrawn his authority. Massino had Gerlando Sciascia murdered in 1999, who had suspected Capo Anthony Graziano of cocaine use.

Massino also wanted to change the name of the Bonanno family to the Massino family. One of the reasons was that he was outraged that Joseph Bonanno had published a reveal-al autobiography, A Man of Honor . Massino saw this as a violation of the Omertà . Massino told Vitale that Joe Bonanno was disrespectful to the family. After Massino's arrest in 2003, the name Massino family was no longer used. The name hadn't been common within the Mafia anyway.

Relationships with other families

After Massino came to power, the relationship with John Gotti deteriorated. Massino later said he suspected Gotti was trying to murder him with Vitale. Gotti became insignificant after 1992 after having been sentenced to life imprisonment. Massino was particularly annoyed by Gotti's media hype and vanity , as well as the unauthorized murder of his boss Paul Castellano in late 1985.

The Bonanno family had experienced a significant decline in the 1980s. As a result of Pistone's infiltration, numerous bullies had been arrested and the commission had even expelled the family. That should prove to be an advantage in the long term, as the Bonannos were not affected by the Mafia Commission Trial . In the late 1990s the situation had improved considerably again, as Massino was the only mafia boss who was not in prison. The Bonanno Family had become the most powerful of the Five Families.

Massino avoided meeting other bosses and encouraged his crews to work independently. In January 2000, Massino met the representatives of the incarcerated heads ("acting boss") of the other four families. Massino - now the most influential boss - continued his restrictive measures: full members now had to be purely Italian or Italian-American origin. Anyone with a criminal record for drug offenses could no longer become a full member.

Prosecution

When Massino took up his position as boss, he no longer received the full attention of the FBI. This had practically merged its Bonanno units with those of the Colombo family . Due to the third internal family war with the Colombo (1991–1993), the latter was already busy enough with itself to defend itself against it. Independent Bonanno crews were not founded again until 1996.

The chief of the Bonanno units, Jack Stubing, was aware of Massino's precautions. He targeted Massino's organization and hired white-collar crime experts. In 1995 the consigliere Anthony Spero was sentenced to two years. In 2002 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Vitale was also convicted of credit usury in June 2002. He was initially placed under house arrest.

Until 2002, the Bonanno family was the only family in modern Mafia history that had never had a key witness against them. In 2002 Frank Coppa testified against the family. Shortly thereafter, he was followed by "acting underboss" Richard Cantarella , a participant in the Mirra murder. It was followed by Joseph D'Amico. All of these Pentiti posed a serious threat to Massino.

Convictions

Rico Act 2004

In January 2003, Massino was arrested and charged along with Vitale, Frank Lino and Capo Daniel Mongelli. Most of the charges were based on the " Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act " (RICO). But Massino also had to answer for the murder of Napolitano in 1981. Massino was denied bail and Vincent Basciano became an "acting boss".

Three other Bonanno members decided to work with the FBI. James Tartaglione had the FBI wired up. He was followed by Salvatore Vitale; he had already been threatened with death by Massino before his arrest, as he suspected him of being an FBI spy. Shortly afterwards, Lino also decided to betray the family and the Bonanno associate Duane Leisenheimer also became a Pentito .

Massino now faced three more murder charges: the three capos murder and the murders of Mirra, Bonventre, Infanti and Sciascia. Particular attention was paid to the murder of Sciascia. This happened after 1994 and enabled the use of the death penalty, as a recent law allowed it to be used if the murder was carried out in connection with racketeering.

Massino's trial began on May 24, 2004. He faced 11 RICO charges and seven murder charges. He was also charged with arson, extortion, usury of credit, money laundering and illegal gambling. The Time magazine had described him as "the last Don" because the bosses of the other five families as a result of the Mafia Commission Trials were in custody.

Salvatore Vitale revealed on the witness stand Massino's entire criminal career.

The defense by Massino's attorney Brietbart was essentially aimed at the cross-examination to cast doubt on the credibility of the key witnesses. What was unusual, however, was the fact that Massimo did not even try to doubt that he was the boss of the Bonannos. Massino himself "is said to have loved life", as allegedly the number of murders committed decreased during his reign.

On July 30, 2004, Massino was found guilty of all eleven charges, and on October 12, 2004, he was sentenced to life in prison.

Pentito

Immediately after July 30th, Massino expressed his willingness to cooperate. One of the reasons was that he was facing the death penalty for Sciascia . Massino was the first high-ranking gangster to face the death penalty since the execution of Kosher Nostra Louis Buchalter in 1941. Mafia authors Anthony D. DeStefano and Selwyn Raab believe that Massino's disillusionment was one reason why many more Mafiosi testified against the families in the period that followed. Massino led the FBI to the Mafia cemetery in Queens, where the bodies of Alphonse Indelicato, Trinchera and Giaccone were found. The bodies of John Favara , who accidentally killed Gotti's son in a traffic accident, and Tommy DeSimones were also hoped to be found. Massino also incriminated Vincent Basciano. Massino confessed to Sciascia's murder. For this and other crimes he was sentenced to two life sentences with the prospect of early release. Josephine Massino was allowed to keep her house, paid $ 7 million and hundreds of gold bars to the state, and also signed the Casablanca restaurant over to the state.

In 2013 Michael Mancuso succeeded him as the boss of the family.

Massino's confession and dismissal

Massino later testified against other gangsters, for example the Genovese capo Anthony Romanello. In June 2013, Massino's detention reduction was examined. He was released because of his full cooperation and poor health.

literature

  • Simon Crittle: The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino . Berkley, New York 2006, ISBN 0-425-20939-3 .
  • Anthony DeStefano: King of the Godfathers: "Big Joey" Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family , 2007 paperback. Edition, Pinnacle Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-7860-1893-2 .
  • Lamothe, Lee, Humphreys, Adrian: The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto . John Wiley & Sons, Mississauga 2006, ISBN 978-0-470-15445-8 .
  • Pistone, Joseph, Brandt, Charles: Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business . Running Press, Philadelphia 2007, ISBN 978-0-7624-2707-9 .
  • Selwyn Raab: Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires , 2006 revised. Edition, Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-312-36181-5 .
  • Carl Sifakis: The Mafia Encyclopedia , 2005. Edition, Infobase Publishing, New York 1987, ISBN 978-0-8160-6989-7 .

Web links

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predecessor Office successor
Philip Rastelli Head of the " Bonanno Family " of La Cosa Nostra
1991 - 2004 		Michael Mancuso
personal data
SURNAME Massino, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massino, Joseph Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mafia boss in New York
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City